School Segregation Descriptive Report

Questions for the group

1. There seems to be conflicting information regarding what schools are metro vs. not?
2. Do we want to add all charter and private schools or are we only focused on private schools?
3. Some school districts have common names (St. Paul Public School District vs. Sain Paul Public Schools | Eden Prairie vs. Eden Paririe Public School District | etc.) - do we merge these or are they separate districts?
4. The total enrollment seems to be a decimal. Is it appropriate to round down? (conservative)
5. Many schools are missing level over time, and some have conflicting levels (High School in 2011 and 2013 but Other/Ungraded in 2012). Can we impute standard levels across schools?
6. Hmong College Prep (and likely others) have some data quality issues (2010 has 100% hispanic students - assuming data entry error) - can we correct these instances?
7. Which free/reduced lunch/meausre do we use? Manual or the imputed values? Manual is more conservative.

BIPOC Metro School Enrollment 1991-2022

Enrollment Breakdown Over Time

Proportion of BIPOC Students by Metro District

Percent of BIPOC Students by School Across Metro Districts

Percent of Metro District’s BIPOC Students by School

Percent Change in BIPOC Student Representation Across Minneapolis Schools

Percent Change in BIPOC Student Representation Across Saint Paul Schools

Percent Change in BIPOC Student Representation Across Anoka-Hennepin Schools

Economic Segregation 1991-2022

Racial Composition and Economic Segregation

Metro School Enrollment 1991-2022

Racial Composition by District in Twin Cities Metro

Dissimilarity Index

The Dissimilarity index is a measure of…

Dissimilarity index was calculated following Wang et al.’s, methods found here.

\[Dissimilarity = \frac{1}{2} \sum_{i=1}^{n} \left|\frac{b_i}{B} - \frac{w{_i}}{W} \right|\] Where:

• \(b_i\) is the number of students of a particular racial group in school \(i\).
• \(B\) is the total number of students of the same racial group enrolled in the district.
• \(w_i\) is the number of white students in school \(i\).
• \(W\) is the total number of white students enrolled in the district.
• \(n\) is the number of schools in the district.

Black-White Dissimilarity Index

Asian-White Dissimilarity Index

Hispanic-White Dissimilarity Index

Isolation Index

Isolation index is a measure of…

\[Isolation = \sum_{i=1}^{n} \left(\frac{B_i}{B} \right) \left(\frac{B{_i}}{T_i} \right)\] Where:

• \(B_i\) is the number of students of a particular racial group in a school \(i\).
• \(B\) is the total number of students of the same racial group in the entire district.
• \(T_i\) is the total student enrollment of the district \(i\).
• \(n\) is the number of schools in the district.

Interaction Index

Interaction Index is a measure of…

\[Interaction = \sum_{i=1}^n \left( \frac{B_i}{B} \right) \left( \frac{W_i}{T_i} \right)\]

Where:

• \(B_i\) is the number of students of a particular racial group in a school \(i\).
• \(B\) is the total number of students of the same racial group in the entire district.
• \(W_i\) is the number of White students in school \(i\).
• \(T_i\) is the total student enrollment of the school district \(i\).
• \(n\) is the number of schools in the district.

Normalized Exposure Index

Index Selection